Calf-feeder



(No Model.)

E. F. PUNK.

GALE FEEDER.

No. 336.225. Patented Feb. 16, 1886.

WITNESSES Y I NVEN OR E- F. F LJN K (S REEN/MM N4 PETERS.Pholn-Lilhcgriphar, wuhlngum. D. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ED\VARD F. FUNK, OF DECATUR, ILLINOIS.

CALF-FEEDERQ SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 336,225,dated February 16, 18II6.

Application filed April 18, 1895. Serial No. 162,646. (No model.)

2" all whom it may concern: nipple is placed in position, as shown, andse- Be it known that I, EDWARD F. FUNK, a cured by crossbars d (Z.resident of Decatur, in the county of Macon In operation the float isplaced in the feed 0 and State of Illinois, have invented certain atsuch an angle that the air is expelled from 3 new and usefulImprovements in Calf-Feeders, the concavity, and the chains are sosecured of which the following is a specification. that the float maymove freely from the top to My invention relates to that class ofcalfthe bottom of the bucket. Any attempt to feeders in which the milkis held in asuitable draw the float from the milk will be counter- 5vessel and drawn through a nipple attached acted by the suction of theconcavity b, and to a floating disk. after the milk is exhausted thechains efiect- In such feeders, as heretofore constructed, nally preventdisplacement. In case of mixed there has been nothing to prevent thecalf feed beingsubstituted forpuremilk, the crossfrom throwing thefeeder out of the bucket, bars will prevent clogging in the nipple, andand the liability of the nipple to become obsaid bars also preventthelower end of said 15 structed has not been provided against. nipple fromcollapsing when suction is ap- To overcome these imperfections and toproplied to the same.

vide a superior means of attaching the nipple I claim as new and desireto secure by Letto the float is the object of my invention. ters Patent-In the drawings accompanying and forming l. The conibination, in acalf-feeder, of a 20 a part of this specification, Figure 1 is acenfloat concaved on its lower side and provided tral vertical sectionof my device ready for with a tubular central downward extension, a use.Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of the nipple extended through thefloat and through feeder detached from the bucket, and Fig. 3 is thetubular extension, and cross-bars that pass a bottom view of the float.through the tubular extension and the nipple, 25 a is the float. Vsubstantially as and for the purpose set forth. I) is a concavity in thebottom of the float. 2. The combination, in a calf-feeder, of a c is thenipple. receptacle for the milk, a float, a nipple, and d are cross-barsthat secure the nipple to the chains extending from the float to thevertical float, and act as guards to prevent the nipple center of themilk-receptacle, substantially as 0 from becoming clogged. and for thepurpose set forth.

6 is a downward projection of the float, that In testimony whereof Isign my name in the provides a suitable point of attachment for presenceof two subscribing witnesses. the nipple.

ff are chains attached to the float and to EDWARD FUNK 3 5 the inside ofthe bucket at its vertical center. Witnesses:

In constructing my device the float is formed 0. O. CLARK, withconcavity b and projection e, and the JOHN N. BILLS.

